postmodo Latin · revision 32342

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=190–159 BC, Terence|origins=la post, la modo}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''postmodo''' (adverb; also written separately, ''post modo'')^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ A variant ''postmodum'' is also common.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|post|modo|t1=after|t2=just, only]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) The TLL reports Skutsch's view that the preposition post first went with the uninflected adverb [[m|la|modo]], which was later remade as an accusative ⟨modum⟩ after [[m|la|admodum]].^(TLL) De Vaan derives [[m|la|modo]] from [[m|la|modus|t=measure]], from [[itc-pro|*medo-|t=measure, judgement]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler finds it first in Terence, and Lewis & Short cite a single passage of his ''Hecyra''.^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means at a later time, afterwards or presently.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Lewis & Short call it mostly poetic, used by Livy for [[postea]], and absent from Plautus, Cicero, Caesar and Quintilian, though Asinius Pollio has it in a letter to Cicero.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 57/46–12 BC – Propertius uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it for postea.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # [[m|en|afterwards|alt=Afterwards]], later; [[m|en|presently]], shortly.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}